That’s a very good idea.
Beside the number of permutations it gives, another benefit of using three words is they could form the border of the QR code, with the fourth side being the domain name

Paper may be old-fashioned but I need something light for the carrier pigeon

My biggest bugbear relating to this is the lack of a short text alternative for QR codes, especially with long URLs.
If the URL is too long to fit into a QR code, then it’s also too long for me to type in manually!

I find it handy for writing down a URL on paper

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I think it’s interesting that the phrase “ARM-free” roadmap is being used. I had no idea there had been so much market penetration of RISC-V already

I’m really grateful for the introduction to deceptive patterns here.
I was not aware of it, and I think it’s important to have language that can describe specifically how tech companies are trying to coerce people.

There’s a 1920 x 1200 non-touch display option, which will surely get you better battery life than OLED. But what’s most interesting about it is the 1-120 Hz variable refresh rate, which Dell says is a first to for this model. That extremely low refresh should help save power when static images or text is on the screen.

Ah yeah, I should have read the rest of the article. I didn’t know about that feature though, that’s cool

1 Hz display option: like an e-Ink display?

(it says 120Hz in the article)

For first-timers: pick at random and use it until it annoys you. Then you can make an informed decision second (third, fourth, …, nth) time around

I think “sludge” would be a good alternative

I could go for some of that sweet, sweet radiation right now

She had to pick what to read too!
I think I’d last a week in that job, I’d end up choosing weird stuff and getting fired

Feels like a variation on this old quote:

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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I’m working towards something like that. I’m hoping to ultimately drop the smartphone altogether, and I’ve set my current phone’s end of life (2027ish?) as the goal.
I think the other thing that’s necessary to keep the same sense of connectedness is a device to receive notifications, and I have an open source smartwatch I want to program for that. I’ve been working on a notification server too (kind of like Gotify), but at the moment it’s a work in progress

By layers I mean image layers when manipulating an image in an image editor. So I guess what you’re saying is an image would be flattened before being passed to a compression algorithm?

I wonder if hypothetically, AI could do the same with a box over text, even if it was 100% opaque. For example, if the data from the layer containing text was part of the image data passed to an image compression algorithm, and that data was somehow reflected in the output

Misread as Pelletburo, now sad there’s no pet feeder called that

For up to 480W of fun!

I had only heard of the subs going to the US until now.
It’s kinda crazy they’re crossing the Atlantic in those things, even crazier they’re doing round trips